Why go? After a $34 million renovation, the stylishly restored historic Adelphi Hotel brings old world charm back to Broadway in Saratoga Springs with two restaurants and stunningly designed spaces for private events. The lobby with its soft upholstered vintage furniture, floor to ceiling mirrors and phone booth original to the 19th century hotel is a beautiful spot to linger. Morrissey's Lounge, often buzzing with an after-work crowd, affords a relaxing option for dining alone or a collaborative lunch. With the hotel's formal fine dining restaurant, The Blue Hen, tucked out of sight in an English conservatory overlooking the rear patio, Morrissey's Lounge is poised to reclaim the Adelphi Hotel's legendary status as Saratoga Springs' summertime place to be.

When to go: Style conscious guests and early birds can breakfast on caviar soft scrambled eggs and ricotta French toast in The Blue Hen from 6:30 to 11 a.m., or take morning coffee in the hotel lobby. A creative small plates menu, available from 11 a.m. in Morrissey's Lounge, provides an all day sanctuary for those combining work with light bites or lunch. A raw bar and horse racing-inspired cocktails present an upscale option for client entertaining, but may be hard-to-resist as a regular after work treat.

For a sweet afternoon pick-me-up, look no further than the hot mulled apple cider with churro doughnuts, or coffee and roasted fig cobbler with a scoop of black mission fig ice cream. And after work, make a standing weekly date for tuna tataki, oysters on the half shell, king crab or Hamachi with green papaya and noac cham at the nightly raw bar.

Whether you're celebrating or commiserating, toast your day with a Prizefighter cocktail (gin, apple cider, grapefruit bitters and muddled cucumber) or spiced rum and black pepper-syrup Dead Heat Daiquiri. Should you order the Sam Smith Nut Brown Ale, show your respect for flavor by requesting a cool bottle not straight from the fridge.

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Your wallet or your expense account? Wallet. With personal pizzas and eclectic small plates at $8 to $13, you won't mind spotting the bill. Oysters at the raw bar can rack up the tab priced a steep $3.75 to $4 per shuck. The full bar offers horse racing-themed cocktails ($13 to $14); beer ($6 to $10); wine (by the glass, $8 to $16; by the bottle, $36 to $60).

Specs: Indoor seating for 30 includes seats at the bar. In spring, outside seating will run length of the hotel overlooking Broadway. (More patio seating is available on The Blue Hen Terrace to the rear of the hotel.)

Noise level: Quiet during day. Buzzy during happy hour and likely to be a hot spot in summer.

Comfort: Rich dark wood and supple leather seats as colorful as John Morrissey, a boxer, gangster and politician credited with bringing horse racing to Saratoga Springs and the lounge's legendary namesake. The polished scene is rugged enough for draft pints and whisky at night, while the copper-flashed picture windows on Broadway cast plenty of light on the lounge by day.